"By letting them attack you, Harmony made a personal affront to the Dark One," Gabriel explained.

He feels it was an affront to him because the betrayer who murdered our father came from his family.

In June 1805 there came a last and intolerable affront to the emperors of Austria and Russia, who at that very time were seeking to put bounds to Napoleons ambition and to redress the balance of power.

To have done so would have been a mortal affront to his ally, Austria.

Catherine de' Medici was greatly incensed at this affront, and took her revenge by having the constable disgraced on the death of Henry II.

Revenge for an affront, massacred all the men capable of bearing arms in Alexandria.

Moreover, it was an affront, in particular, for the sons of Walid I., who already had considered the nomination of Yazid II.